Facebook Tips: Managing Friends With Lists

Friends lists can be used to filter your new s feed, choose who you want to chat with, make event invitations easier and filter your updates and personal information from certain people. They're extremely useful and best set up as soon as possible , so that you can add friends to the right lists as you connect with them on Facebook. From the home page, click on the "Friends" application. Then, at the top you'll see "Create a List". 

A few lists you'll probably w ant to make:Relationship to you: Friends; Family; Professional; Acquaintance. 

How much you like them: Best friends; People you w ant to hear from; People you don't w ant to chat to often.

How you know them: Clubs & Associations; School/University; Conference; Mutual Interest; Social Circle. 

These groups are just recommendations; you’ll discov er what’s useful for you as w e continue.

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Facebook Tips: Changing privacy settings for certain friend lists

Almost ev ery privacy setting and update on Facebook can be fine-tuned to be controlled by friends list. I t's a very powerful privacy tool.For example: whenever you update your status, add photos or add a link you should see a little padlock. Click this to set the security level for just that update, overriding general privacy settings.  

Then choose "specific   people".

You can then choose w ho CAN see the update and w ho CANNOT see the update, using lists. This means that people you'v e forgotten to add to the appropriate lists can't see the element in question by default, but that’s better than a message going out to everyone!

Note that the method for filtering priv acy settings by friend list is much the same as it is for an update. When you save the settings you can continue to post the update as normal. Click on the padlock if you w ant to re -enter the settings we've just been through. Once posted, you can check the settings by hov ering over the padlock symbol.

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Facebook Tips: Viewing filtered news feed & editing lists,Using friends lists to manage chat privacy

Go to the Friends application from your home page, then click on the list you need to edit. Note that this is also how you v iew filtered news feeds. Click "edit list" in the top right and click on whoever you need to add to or remove from the list.

Using friends lists to manage chat privacy

Facebook Chat is handy, but if you hav e 500 friends you m ight not w ant all of them demanding access to your brain. Manage it all with lists. To edit your lists, click on chat then click on "Friends lists". I f the w indow pops up and you'v e run out of space, the hack to get around this is to pop out the chat w indow. Go to options, then choose "Pop out window".

From there, simply ensure the lists you w ant hav e ticks next to them. Decide w ho you want to talk to most, who you w ill only talk to if you're bored and chatty and w ho you'd like to filter out on occasion. For example: Best friends; Family; Professional contacts; Overly chatty people. Re-order the lists. 

Drag them around and click "Finished Re -ordering".

Now you can be online to some people and offline to others. To the right of each list is a green symbol –  click to appear offline to all on the list.

The grey symbol means that you're now offline for those people. 

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Facebook Tips: Fundamental Privacy Controls

Setting up Facebook can be confusing, especially if you don’t know what’s going on. For example, you’ll be asked if you w ant to search your IM and email contacts: 

Before you enter anything, be aw are: Facebook will remember all your contacts and use that information to suggest connections. Also, Facebook doesn't make you enter your password in order to upload your contacts. I t w ill find contacts from whichever account you're logged in to, regardless of which email address you enter in to Facebook.Sneaky, huh?

The first page is a list of contacts found in your w ebmail account that are already on Facebook. I t's worth looking through the list carefully, rather than clicking-select all", since it w ill also find people w ho you don't really know   but email from time to time. 

The next page is ev eryone else in your address book. De-select everyone RIGHT NOW.This w ill send a friend request from you to everyone you've ever emailed from that webmail account: ex-boyfriends, old co-workers, teachers, administration staff, tech support, mailing lists...everyone. There may be a few people you want to invite,but de-select everyone first!  

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Facebook Tips: Privacy of basic updates

When a Facebook user posts and updates, it show s up in the new s feeds of friends. It also goes on the user’s w all, meaning visitors to their profile can see recent activity. Depending on the privacy levels chosen, an update can also be show n to friends of friends or beyond (ie,on netw orks and community pages.)

Tagging a person, using status updates, notes tagging, photo tagging or video tagging, w ill also make that update appear in that person's profile and in the new s feeds of their friends. When you tag an event, group or page, not only w ill your friends see this on your w all and in their new s feed: the update w ill show up on the w all of the relevant event, group or page and the new s feeds  of people following that group, ev ent or 

page. Your priv acy settings can offset this.

For example, the follow ing exchange was one I saw in my home feed. I knew the girl listed at the top as commenting on the status. I don't know the person who wrote the original status or any of the people w ho w rote the other comments. 

Because this person's status update w as somewhat public, Facebook shared that with people like me: a friend of his friend.This post w as obviously popular,so the Facebook new s feed deemed this to be an important update. When updating your status, keep in mind your privacy settings and the possibilities of 

who might see it. 

Deleting a Status Update

To delete a status update,go to your wall (on your profile). Hover on the right hand side of the update and you w ill see a remove button.Click that and confirm the delete.

When you delete it, the update is remov ed from your wall, your friends' news feeds and from the "current status" display at the top of your profile.There's a similar function, which is a little confusing to new people: the "clear" link which sits next to the "current status" display.

"Clear" w on't remove the update from your w all or news feed; it just clears the "current status".

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Facebook Tips: Posting other people's walls and Photo Albums & Tagging

Consider w all posts to be the equiv alent of sharing an anecdote in the middle of a cocktail party. All their friends and family are there and yours are too. Don't say anything you wouldn't say in this crowded room.

Photo Albums & Tagging

Not sure about your privacy settings? Don't add a location or your photos might be shared with far more people than you think.You can change the privacy of each album by editing the album and clicking on 

the padlock. Even if you hav e changed your privacy settings to "Friends Only" it w ill only apply to future photo albums. You need to change older albums manually.

Facebook makes it possible to tag someone even if that person is not a friend of yours, or not on Facebook.Think carefully, or talk to the person, before you do this. 

Some people have very good reasons to not want their details, photos and names on Facebook. I t's good practise to check with people before you put photos of them on Facebook (or any where on the internet) at all. 

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Facebook Tips: Events Privacy

You really w ant to set how publican event is BEFORE you start adding addresses or inviting your friends.If you create your event through the publisher (home page or profile), it will be a public even by default. This means anyone can see it, search for it, see   the address and see who is invited. Not good if it's at your house!

It also goes straight to your update feed while it,s still public. So, make sure you don't use this when the name of the event is something like "Surprise birthday party for Kelly".

If you create the ev ent using the "What are you planning" box of the home page you can set it to be public or private using the padlock.  

Or, when you edit the ev ent, make sure you un-check the public box. I f your event is public it is not just seen by all of your friends: it is also public for everyone on Facebook.

The other priv acy option listed: to show or hide the guest list. For larger events, where the guests don't necessarily know each other, it's probably best to hide the guest list. Decide before you invite people. Also, be carefulw ith exact addresses and too many details. Don't put private details into a public event! 

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Facebook Tips: Facebook Message Privacy

As w ith email, beaw are when messages sent to a lot of people come in. The default reply option  is to "reply to all". Don't click this unless you w ant ev eryone to read your reply!

You can respond to just one person by clicking the word "reply" next to their name in the thread. 

Networks

Netw orks are groups of people (educational institution or workplace). You can adjust your privacy settings to allow or disallow people from your networks to see your various activities or information, so be aware if you’reamember of any particular network.

Groups

Be aw are that anything you post to group walls and  discussions (or tag with a group) w ill beviewable by the other people in the group (and potentially by your friends). This all depends on the settings of the group, and your privacy settings. Just consider it public and be careful w hat you say.

Pages

By "liking" a fan page you're showing appreciation for the blog, product, organisation, political figure, company, activity or sentiment. I t will show up on your profile and you w ill see updates in your news feed and messages.

Questions

Question and answ ers are public, period. None of your security settings will stop these from being public.

When you ask your first question you’ll be reminded  of this:

Note that you can unfollow your question at any time to stop getting notifications.

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Facebook Tips: Controlling who can write on your wall Control who can comment on posts

Not much control here: it’s either "Your Friends" or no one.  Go to Account > Privacy Settings  and choose "Customise Settings".

Then look for "things others share" and make adjustments as you see fit.

Control who can comment on posts

You can control exactly w ho is able to comment about your status updates and other people's w all comments. I t's possible to mark these as "friends only", but w hen you hav e multiple circles of friends on Facebook that sometimes isn't enough. What if your boss sees something one of your high school friends wrote? Or your grandma sees something one of your football friends w rote? 

Not all things can be customised, but you can make an effort to minimise potential risk by using friend lists. For instance,  w e can change w ho can "comment on posts" by customising the 

field.  

We can then choose the specific people who can comment on posts,  and specific people w ho  cannot.

So, in order  to keep things in order, w e  limit who can comment to just people w e trust. 

A setup like this should prev ent a lot of surprise comments. 

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Facebook tips: Managing Applications & Websites

Applications come w ith a risk 'not all application dev elopers have your best interests at heart. Dev elopers have access to a lot of your Facebook information and that of your friends. They may use this information for marketing, or they could use it for something else entirely. From Account > Privacy Settings, there's a link to "edit your settings" for Applications and Websites.

From there, you'll need to access most of the options to change them from the default.

Ensure "Game and Application activ ity" is "Friends only". Then, click on "edit settings" for the "Information accessible through your friends'. Un "check all of the check boxes as shown and sav e. 

This w ill stop the applications your friends add from accessing your details. You nev er know who's going to add a dodgy application. 

Facebook's 'Instant Personalisation' is not yet enabled worldwide. But, 'edit settings' and deselect the personalisation option if possible. Note that it's checked by default, so as soon as this is av ailable in 

your area you'll probably w ant to deselect it ASAP.

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Facebook tips: Understanding Facebook Application Privacy Issues

The section called "What you're using" gives you a quick over view of all of your applications, allowing you to delete them quickly. 

The 'game and application activ ity' section allows you to control which of your Facebook contacts can see your applications. It also controls w ho can see the applications you have used recently. So, w ho do you want to know that you've added a dating application.

 Should your w or kmates know you've been using Farmville recently? Lock this privacy setting down using friend filters.

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Facebook tips: Managing Application Permissions

There are all sorts of apps: quizzes, games, apps for login and w all 'posting apps. The login serv ice is known as Facebook Connect and these apps w ill show up in your applications looking just like any other.

Head to the 'Account' menu and choose 'Application Settings'. 

This w ill show you all of the applications you hav e added (for w hatever reason). Use the filter menu to show a subset of your applications.

Click the cross to remov e applications or use'edit settings' to control additional priv ileges you may hav e granted, such as seeing your information w hen you're not logged in, sending you email or posting to your w 

all.

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Facebook tips: Blocking and reporting applications

There are sev eral things you can do to report an application. When reading your new s feed, you can choose to 'Mark as spam'. Facebook w ill add it to other reports to decide w hether the user or the application is spam.

Just like profile reporting and blocking, you can click through to any application's page and report or block the application.

I f an application is posting to your profile w all, here's a few opti ons that help you w ork out why it's happening and how to stop it (with v arious degrees of severity):

Check to see if you allow ed it to be imported, by looking at your Profile Wall and choosing 'Options' then 'Settings'.

Check 'Account Application Settings'  page to see if you have granted permissions to this application. Edit settings to deny permission. 

I f it has been posted due to an application your friend has added, remove permissions for your friends' applications to know your details, block the application and report it. 

You can remov e one occurrence (hover in the top right and click 'remove') then ask for the application to not be allow ed to post. Sadly, this w on't w or kif a friend has posted the update. 

Ask your friend to stop the updates or to remov e the application.Remove your friend as a connection on Facebook.Change the viewing permissions for your w all, so you w on't be embarrassed 

by these updates w hen you hav en't yet deleted them. 

Ban all of your friends from posting to your w all (that w ill  definitely stop it).Lobby Facebook to allow fine-tuning of w ho can post to your w all. Lobby Facebook to disallow applications which post to your w all v ia your friends' actions. 

Managing notifications from applications

I t's easy to cut dow n on the email s you receive from Facebook and its applications. Go to your Account Settings page and click on the Notifications tab to choose. 

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Windows 8 Tips-- 12 Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 8

I’m been using Windows 8 for a few months and I’m only now starting to get used to it. The whole Metro UI is taking some time to get acclimated with. Now that I’ve gotten past that stage, I’m looking into making myself more productive on Windows 8 by learning some useful keyboard shortcuts.

In this post, I’ll go through the 12 keyboard shortcuts for Windows 8 that I think you should definitely learn. There are literally hundreds, most of which no one will ever use. I’ve already seen several bogs write posts like Top 30 Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts, but that’s way too many for the average user. I pretty much only use 5 to 10 shortcuts on a daily basis. Either way, you can speed things up a little using shortcuts, especially if you have a giant flat panel using super high resolution.

Feel free to post a comment and tell us what your favorite shortcuts are for Windows 8. As we get closer to the final public release of Windows 8, more and more shortcuts will probably be added for various Metro apps, etc.

Windows Key – This will bring you to the Windows 8 Start Screen. Doesn’t matter if you are on the desktop or in a full-screen Metro app, pressing the Windows key on your keyboard will slide you back to the main Start Screen. Pressing the key again will toggle you between the start screen and the last app you were using.

Windows Key + D – Missing the desktop? Hate having to open the charms bar or sliding your mouse to the upper left corner to get back to the desktop? Just press Windows Key + D and you’re back in the desktop.

Windows Key + C – This hotkey brings up the Charms bar. The charms bar is basically a “settings” type bar that gives you different options depending on which program you have open. Also, it lets you share something or perform a quick search.

Windows Key + E – Opens Windows Explorer. I’m pretty much always messing with files, so this is a very useful shortcut.

Windows Key + R – Brings up the Run dialog box, which lets you quickly run commands. Also, it’s easy to open the command prompt by using this shortcut, then typing in CMD.

Windows Key + Z - This will bring up the app bar in a full-screen Metro app so you can execute commands.

Windows Key + Tab - The same key combination through all versions of Office to quickly cycle through all open apps.

Windows Key + H – This will open the Share charm directly. Now that you will have to use Charms all the time in Windows, learning this one and the next one will make you work a lot faster.

Windows Key + I - Opens the Settings charm directly. The settings charm also lets you turn off the computer and change your PC settings. Yes, you have to go through this charm to turn off a Windows 8 machine!

Windows Key + V – Notifications is a new and big part of Windows. You can get notifications for all kinds of stuff including when you get a new email, a download has completed, and lots more stuff.

Windows Key + Period (.) – This probably my favorite. You can snap any Metro app to the right or left hand side of the screen and then continue using other Metro apps. This is great if you want to snap your email to the right and then read the news or do something else.

Ctrl + Shift + Esc - This will bring up the new Windows 8 Task Manager. The shortcut is the same as it was in previous version of Windows.

So those are the 12 shortcuts I have found to be the most useful in Windows 8 so far. A lot of them use the Windows Key, so that makes it a little easier to remember too. Tell us what you think! Enjoy!

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